Hacker News: physhster

New comment by physhster in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

physhster — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:18:55 +0000

All I'd get is pigeons and seagulls...

New comment by physhster in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

physhster — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:19:41 +0000

Bunch of idiots with space weapons. Great!

New comment by physhster in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

physhster — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:18:12 +0000

Seems to be blocking users outside of the US, FWIW...

New comment by physhster in "Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge"

physhster — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:02:17 +0000

I think, perhaps, Japanese paramedics shouldn't take their shoes off...

New comment by physhster in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"

physhster — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:18:00 +0000

Android had (has?) a similar issue with the hotspot feature where it will not turn on in a region where 5 GHz is more regulated than in the US but will also not give you any warning about it.

New comment by physhster in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

physhster — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:13:40 +0000

a̵n̵t̵i̵-̵a̵n̵t̵i̵fa is just fa, no?

New comment by physhster in "CarPlay Is Additive"

physhster — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:18:08 +0000

Sounds like Wireless CarPlay lag. I've experienced it a few times. They should really fix it. Wired CarPlay is great!

New comment by physhster in "CarPlay Is Additive"

physhster — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:13:20 +0000

At this point it's very easy: no CarPlay, no buy. So no Tesla (obv), no Rivian.

New comment by physhster in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

physhster — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:26:00 +0000

I use DNS-level blocking and audit, a bit like Pi-hole, but as a commercial service I can use anywhere. Definitely blocks a lot of trackers, but probably not all.

New comment by physhster in "U.S. science is in chaos"

physhster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:02:18 +0000

Complicated question... Do you have marketable skills that could land you a job in demand with a visa? Or sufficient savings to "buy" residency somewhere?

New comment by physhster in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

physhster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:24 +0000

You can criticize all you want on memegen, people will upvote but nothing will change.

New comment by physhster in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

physhster — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:44:08 +0000

^ this! Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, people who decide to work there make the statement that they are ok with it. Same with Palantir, X, Grok, Tesla etc

New comment by physhster in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

physhster — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:45:32 +0000

Apple Maps only works well in North America, possibly just the US. The same way a lot of happy paths in Apple products are designed for California/Single Culture/Single Language/Single Residence.

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:57:32 +0000

You're confusing colos and first-party data centers. A colo mostly relies on its customers for installs and maintenance. Google, MS, FB, Apple etc own the entire building so all the functions are local: server install and maintenance, network install and maintenance, generator maintenance, electricians, water treatment in some cases... That's very easily in the hundreds if not thousands for big sites.

Count the cars here: 36.242186561973, -95.32619746715035

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:53:37 +0000

You have no idea how much maintenance is required. Just replacing hard drives, not even counting server repairs, new servers installation, network infrastructure installation and maintenance, power distribution, generator engineering, water treatment etc etc

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:51:33 +0000

Data centers are hardly new technology... For the longest time, people had no idea where the cloud was because the footprint was pretty small. It's another golden goose moment where everyone is going to build DCs and we might end up like in the dotcom bubble where way too much fiber was deployed for what was necessary at the time.

New comment by physhster in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

physhster — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:49:11 +0000

Less than 30 makes no sense. It's easily in the hundred if you account for shifts and the specialized jobs required.

New comment by physhster in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

physhster — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:25:21 +0000

Thanks for that, now I have a rock-solid argument when people say "oh we're already Microsoft customers, we'll just use Azure, it's easier, and they have Active Directory!!"

New comment by physhster in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

physhster — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:18:49 +0000

This reads like Google culture too...

New comment by physhster in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

physhster — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:42:22 +0000

Some airlines and/or local aviation authorities have additional restrictions. China wants CCC certified power banks, Thailand has a strict 160 Wh limit. Both are very strictly enforced.